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  1. *looks it up* OK, I was correct, so it's my turn. Let's see...
  2. "I think of you as experienced. In an emergency, you would be the first one that I'd call." "You SHOULD call me first. I need time to put my teeth in." "Hey, where's my sashimi and cream cheese on a bagel?" "Here it's called lox." "The hell it is. We had it before you did." "I didn't know Orientals had a sense of humor." "Are you kidding? We invented gunpowder." “This is a police station, not a coffee shop!” “And we’ve got the coffee to prove it!”
  3. "Annie Hall"??? I can just keep guessing his movies at random. I know 2 of them well, and this is neither of them. Of the others I know almost nothing.
  4. I'm picturing William Shatner's face.... but this isn't a Star Trek movie, and "Incubus" was filmed in Esperanto....
  5. April 30th and November 1-2, respectively. (Should really be "DAYS of the Dead". but who asked me?)
  6. I'll have to run this past Mrs Wolf. There's one such show she will know, and I'm feeling confident it's in this list somewhere.
  7. "I think of you as experienced. In an emergency, you would be the first one that I'd call." "You SHOULD call me first. I need time to put my teeth in." "Hey, where's my sashimi and cream cheese on a bagel?" "Here it's called lox." "The hell it is. We had it before you did." "I didn't know Orientals had a sense of humor." "Are you kidding? We invented gunpowder."
  8. In the Nitpicker's Guides, Phil Farrand pointed out Odo can pull off a rat well enough to fool anyone, but can't manage a nose. He said he thought Odo wasn't trying very hard. Me, I think Odo's difficulty is a PSYCHOLOGICAL one, not a physical one. For some reason, he thinks of himself so specifically as "other" when dealing with humanoids that he can't copy any of them well- his subconscious sabotages the attempts. Although, I think, by the series finale, he'd get pretty close to a good copy if he tried- because his subconscious had changed. (We also know that, had he lived long enough, he'd work it out- we saw that with the planet with the alternate timeline, when the Defiant crashed in the past and the survivors made a society.
  9. Let's see.... the name means "White Woods"...... How about "A Streetcar Named Desire"??????
  10. (Peter Sellers once saw the original of " the Producers," by accident. He thought it was so funny, he took out an entire page ad and posted an unsolicited testimonial about how funny it was. This saved both the movie and Mel Brooks' budding career.) OK, moving on from here since it's been more than 3 days..... we linked in with Nathan Lane, so we can't link out with him. We can go with Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Mel Brooks, Jon Lovitz, Will Ferrell, Michael Mc Kean, David Huddelston, Debra Monk, or John Barrowman- provided, of course, you know something else they did to link TO. (Mel Brooks voice acted in the movie, and appeared on camera very briefly at the end.) So, let's see. Barrowman I know mostly from a lot of TV appearances. Some of the others, I probably would have to look up to link, depending on my memory that moment (Huddleston, Monk.) So, I'll go Michael Mc Kean Clue Tim Curry He's been in a number of movies, where he appeared prominently. You should be able to link him fairly painlessly.
  11. At this point, there's been multiple movies with certain names, so adding the year sometimes is important. There have been 3 different movies called "Batman"- in the 1960s with Adam West, in the 1980s with Michael Keaton, and a few years ago with Robert Pattinson. (Yes, all theatrical releases.) Some of them have nothing in common other than the same name. ("Running Scared" and "Running Scared" come to mind, and you may recall there was more than one "Inside Out" movie, one was a kid's animated movie, one was not. And so on. The 2nd " Producers" movie was, in effect, a remake. The original inspired a Broadway musical, and the new movie is based on the musical. It has a LOT of scenes that weren't in the original, characters who weren't in the original, musical numbers that weren't in the musical. For the most part, the actors in the remake are a lot more famous than the actors in the original. (Hans Liebkind's actor was good, but not so famous in the original, but in the remake, you'd recognize him in a second. Nobody remembers the name of the actress in the original who played Ulla, but in the remake, a famous actress played her.) I actually prefer the original, but Mrs Wolf prefers the remake, and both of us enjoy watching either version. In the original, Zero Mostel played Max Bialystock, but Nathan Lane played him in the remake, and that's the link I left up. If you like comedies, you should see either version when you can. I think the remake has a broader appeal among adults, for musical numbers and so on. I freely admit my favorite lines from either version are in the remake. (" Alvin!")
  12. So far, all I have is number 5.
  13. Addams Family Values Nathan Lane The Producers (2005)
  14. "What's your name? Who's your daddy? Is he rich like me?"
  15. "Curse of the Jade Scorpion"???
  16. "GOOD LOVIN'." (I think it was by the Rascals.)
  17. As of the start of "Wednesday," both Wednesday and Pugsley are high school age, but Pugsley is younger than Wednesday. There's some differences in interpretation, too. I tend to lean towards Addams' as being unusually tough physically, and easily athletic when they want to be. (Gomez fenced in the original show and in the movie, in the original show he stood on his head and other things, Pugsley and Wednesday seemed unable to damage each other in the movies, etc.) In the new show, it's possible to bully Pugsley because he's not that durable. Also, there's differences of opinion on how Gomez is supposed to look. I'm used to the Gomez from the aforementioned sources- an athlete, a swordsman, an acrobat, a gymnast. A strict hewing to the original illustrations suggests he's a lot chubbier than that, and some cartoons held with that. The new show has Luis Guzman as Gomez. I don't mind that at all, but I mind the chubbier Gomez they went with. I understand that's an artistic decision, and I simply disagree. I expect there's a lot about the show that would surprise me. I'm used to the family being eerie and creepy, but social- in their own way, not in the usual manner. I'm also used to them being potentially dangerous- when they want to be, which is very different from menacing people openly or brandishing weapons. The series may go along with me on that, but they felt the need to drive the beginning with Wednesday changing schools- which was triggered by Wednesday taking revenge for Pugsley being bullied in an old-school manner. (I would have written the need for revenge differently, but I also get that some people would have disagreed with my ideas.) I know they don't feel the need to copy anything that came before, but take inspiration from it. To a point, I agree with that heartily. We may agree on a great deal of interpretation, and disagree on a number of points. Ultimately, who cares?
  18. The answers are correct. In the US, Wendy's has run promos specifically with the show "Wednesday." Check out their "Meal of Misfortune", a promo that suffers from offering a bad idea as a promotional.
  19. What is this, the wrong day of the week for answers or something? Come on, this one is a snap!
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